This video of Zohran Mamdani, from September 2023, has recently surfaced. He is talking about the salience of international issues to local politics in New York. This is the line that has gotten attention: “When the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF.”
September, 2023.
Zohran Mamdani: “We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF.” pic.twitter.com/sr8pQyKvCq
— MAZE (@mazemoore) October 28, 2025
It is no secret that Mamdani is anti-law enforcement and anti-Israel. What I want to point out is the stupidity of his assertion about the IDF. What is it even supposed to mean? How is the “boot” of the New York Police Department “laced” by the IDF? It makes no sense.
A great many liberals are prone to speaking, as Mamdani does here, in metaphor. Sometimes they do this to provide plausible deniability as to their real meaning. Here, the metaphor is simply nonsensical, and betrays a man of many prejudices but little intelligence.
